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Shia LaBeouf Wishes He Could Take Back All The Gay Slurs He Dropped During Homoerotic Roughhousing
Posted by Seth at 7:30 AM on June 12, 2008
Having now spent two consecutive summers curled up inside frigid multiplex screening rooms with champion switchblade-twirler Shia LaBeouf, it was really starting to feel as if the hot young actor was becoming part of the family. Which made it all the harder to watch a leaked video of LaBeouf partaking in a very real round of Five-Fingered Mexican Roulette—an extreme subgenre of backyard fighting banned in 50 states, five territories, and several Maritime provinces—in which he was heard to drunkenly goad his bromantic sparring partner with a dropping of the dreaded rainbow F-bomb. A pink-faced LaBeouf has now dispatched his right-hand flack to deliver this apology! exclusive! to E! Online:
"The videotape that is currently being circulated is several years old and captures Shia playing a game among friends in which he uses a derogatory word toward a friend," LaBeouf's rep tells me exclusively.
"He regrets having used the word in any capacity and is very embarrassed that this footage is being seen by anyone."
While we appreciate the sentiment, we suspect GLAAD won't be fully satisfied until the young male role model tapes a public service announcement underscoring the ability of ugly words to inflict a pain as severe as "what my Indiana Jones character Mutt Williams felt as he was thwacked numerous times in the genitals by a variety of barbed, bulbous jungle plants."
- Shia LaBeouf "Embarrassed" by Antigay Slur [eonline.com]
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Palmerlime
Posted 6:01 AM 12/6/08
@ Cam/ron: Huuuuge difference between a teenage boy getting drunk in the basement with some friends and an out of control celeb that should be on a suicide watch list.
Not knocking any such list, mind you... that Winehouse chick could net me a cool $500 if she offs herself before year's end.
Palmerlime
Mephisto_Bonk
Posted 6:01 AM 12/6/08
Didn't Shia say in a recent interview that he had dropped some long-term friends because of changes in their attitudes towards each other? The posting of this video sounds like one or more of those dropped-like-a-hot-potato former friends was pissed off and decided on some revenge (and on Shia's birthday, no less).
Mephisto_Bonk
TurdBlossom
Posted 5:22 AM 12/6/08
Gotta love these 'I'm very very sorry I was caught" non-apologies. That being said considering they were goofing around and friends this is hardly the same as if he went gay bashing with his buddies in We-Ho.
TurdBlossom
Cam/ron
Posted 5:19 AM 12/6/08
I expect Shia to get a shrug from the public while Amy Winehouse will continue to get around-the-clock coverage from CNN.
Cam/ron
CourageousCoward
Posted 6:51 AM 12/6/08
@TurdBlossom: "Caught" implies he did something wrong. You should be able to call whomever you want whatever you want in the privacy of your own home. I think there's an Amendment regarding this in our Constitution.
What should be apologized for is the leak of the private tape and people's outrage at such a non-incident.
CourageousCoward
NoGrumpys
Posted 6:46 AM 12/6/08
That is so GAY!
I don't even know what that means
NoGrumpys
kookla
Posted 7:52 AM 12/6/08
This is like a regular Saturday night for my brother and his douchey friends.
kookla
TryThisAtHome
Posted 8:44 AM 12/6/08
Isn't Shia just 22 today? If this video is several years old, that would mean that he was drinking underage! Oh, the scandal!
TryThisAtHome
Colonel Mustard
Posted 9:31 AM 12/6/08
@CourageousCoward: I'm all for free speech, but if you're going to employ demeaning slurs and epithets as part of said speech, then you need to be prepared to reap the whirlwind if a video of you using them is released to the public.
Colonel Mustard
Mephisto_Bonk
Posted 9:31 AM 12/6/08
@CourageousCoward:Agree on the inapporpriateness of the tape being posted in the first place, but hell hath no fury like a (former) friend scorned 9especially one with a video collection.
Ohe has to hope that future apologies will not be due to the stockholders of major studios if Shia's furute behavior does not improve and jeapordizes projects that he is involve in.
@TryThisAtHome:I think that the phrase "several years" is publicist-speak. In the video, Shia looks as he did around the time of the release of Disturbia, so I would guess that it's probably just over a year old.
Mephisto_Bonk
Benny
Posted 9:28 AM 12/6/08
@CourageousCoward: While I agree that getting upset about this is retarded (am I allowed to use that word? I don't know...), there is a difference between what a person 'should be able' to do and what it is actually right to do. Freedom of expression is not so much a moral license as it is a prohibition against enforcing majority values and controlling individuals. It's intended to give people the freedom to do the wrong thing.
Sorry to nitpick, but as a one time moral philosophy major I get bent out of shape by the misappropriation of rights theory.
I suck, I know.
Benny
SunnydaZe10
Posted 9:44 AM 12/6/08
@Colonel Mustard:
Bingo, my friend! Free Speech protects our right to call a guy who uses the word "FAG" an outrageous "PRICK".
Unless he is British, then just lend him a cigarette.
SunnydaZe10
Passwordforgetter
Posted 11:57 AM 12/6/08
If you want to insult a friend, why is it such an outrage that you accuse him (in private) of doing something repulsive ? Sorry, but to a heterosexual male, few things are more repulsive than having sex with another man. Get over it.
Passwordforgetter
HappyBlues
Posted 12:23 PM 12/6/08
I thought "faggot " means a bundle of sticks. English. It's a beautiful language when properly spoken.
HappyBlues
Seth
Posted 12:11 PM 12/6/08
@Passwordforgetter: Because it's a demeaning term that usually accompanies a baseball bat to the skull?
Seth
SanFranBetsu
Posted 5:03 PM 12/6/08
Oh please, boys call each other that all the time, they are testing their manhood. Let the little jerk finish growing up.
SanFranBetsu
Benny
Posted 5:22 PM 12/6/08
@SanFranBetsu: I'm so glad you guys are coming out of the woodwork to defend this guy. I said something similar in the comments for the original story and got called a faggot MYSELF! ...For shame!
Benny
Seth
Posted 11:56 PM 12/6/08
Has anyone in this thread defending the word "faggot" ever been called a "faggot" by a "non-faggot" in front of a classroom of snickering other "non-faggots" who knew that you were, in actuality, a "faggot?" If so, I doubt you'd find the word quite so hip, harmless, and awesome.
Seth
catch23
Posted 2:19 AM 13/6/08
I really don't understand how people can be held responsible for shit like this... it's a leaked video of him a few years ago on YouTube, not a nationwide press-release stating his opinions. Of course... it's a fine line these days.
catch23
Benny
Posted 12:25 PM 13/6/08
@Seth: Yeah, but the point is precisely that we haven't. It's context that gives words meaning. In that context it's terrible because it is intended to degrade, humiliate and bully someone for their sexual orientation. In Shia's context it's a kid goofing around with one of his friends. Words don't have intrinsic power. It's how you use them that matters.
Benny
ophthalmologist
Posted 2:00 AM 14/6/08
"...woops, some of those guys who steer my career at the studios and the agency are, hmhm, gays, so I better apologize through my surrogate..."
I agree with everyone who writes that many straight guys will NEVER get why this word is not cool.
If you've never been hurt by a word personally, of course you'll think you have the absolute right to use it wherever and whenever, completely clueless about how it's been used to hurt people. They don't know what they don't know.
ophthalmologist
bugupit
Posted 9:36 AM 14/6/08
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
bugupit
Imnotatnbc
Posted 4:11 PM 15/6/08
Uh...translated his name pretty much means: 'The Beef that's a gift from God.'
Come on, if that's not a gay man I don't know what is.
Imnotatnbc
FlangeSqueal
Posted 9:54 AM 16/6/08
This poofter with a name from San Francisco has the nerve to call someone else a 'faggot'?
If he was a serious actor that had some credits after his name besides Disney crud and the other crapola that follows him - he might be noteworthy.
His drunken exploits on Michigan Avenue in Chicago and this latest footage - however old or new it is - show him as the asshole he is.
Fool BeefBoy should realize the KweerBoys can make him money - or make him a beggar.
He made the choice.
Now he'll beg for Throat Depth inspections from strangers in alleys - since his movie-image self will have dried up and blown away.
Poor Sucker Shia ! Blowjobs for quarters - and he swallows !
FlangeSqueal